p. 6; footnote: "John Marks (Hastings, John) was a Capt. in
Revolutionary War, and for this service, received a grant of
4,000 acres of land on Brush Creek, Ross Co., Ohio. He marched
to Williamsburg, VA, 2 May 1775, to demand satisfaction of Lord
Dunmore for the removal of the powder (Wood'sHistory p.364)

p. 6; footnote; "John Marks was Capt. 14th VA, (p.368) Also
commanded a company in 1st Virginia, took part in battled of
Guilford Court House, Camden, Ninety-six, and Eutaw Springs.
(p.370) Commanded the 10th virginia Regt. 1779, and 1785; was
Sheriff of Albemarle Co., VA 1785; Magistrate of the County,
1783__(VACountyRecords) For the above service his descendants
were eligible to DAR. SeeNat.Nos. 44825-64534. He was
commissioned 20 Mar 1779."

"Capt. John Marks, having served in the Army for five years,
with great fidelity is obliged on account of his bad state of
health to retire from service, and is therefore permitted to
resign; given under my hand, in camp at Chesterfield, this 15th,
day of Feb. 1781. By order, from Staulere?Kaulere?
Signed, William Davis, Col."
"Capt. John Marks, Virginia Cont. Line, 3 years service, 3 Sep
1783.Sons of Am. Revolution. Kentucky Year Book, 1893/94; Land
Bounty & Warrants. p.203."

pp. 6-7; [footnote]
"United States of America; In Congress Assembled; To John Marks,
Esq.,
Greetings: We reposing special trust, and confidence in your
patriotic conduct, and fidelity, do by these presents,
constitute, and appoint you to be a Captain in the 10th VA Regt.
United states army, to take rank as such from the 15th day of
March, 1777, A.D. You are therefore carefully, and diligently to
discharge the duty of a Captain, by doing, and performing all
manner of things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge,
and require all officers, and soldiers, under your command to be
obedient to your orders, and you are to observe, and follow such
orders, and directions, from time to time as you shall receive
from this, or from a future Congress, of United States, or
Committee of Congress, for that purpose appointed, committee of
that United States, or Commander in Chief, for the time being of
the Army of theUnited States, or any other superior officer.
Acceding to the rules, and discipline of war, in pursuance of
the trust reposed in you, this commission to continue in force
until revoked by this or a future Congress, a committee of
Congress
before mentioned, or a committee of the states.

"Witness his Excellency, John Jay, Sec. Pres., of the Congress
of the U.S. of America at Philadelphia, the 20th day of March,
1779, and in the year of Independence John Jay. Entered in
Office of War dept. Examined by Board attest.
R. Scull ...Secretary of Board. (DAR Lin. Bk., V. 65, p. 188)
contributed by Mrs.
H. C.. Jones, Huntsville, AL. Loaned her by an elderly relative,
Miss Minnie
Jordan."

"Capt. John Marks and his family removed with the Gilmer
immigration to Wilkes County, Georgia, where he died shortly
after, a year or two, leaving two children and three
stepchildren. He removed to Georgia during his incumbency in
office as Sheriff, and act of the Legislature was passed Nov
1788, which recited that no sale of lands in Albemarle Co., VA
delinquent for taxes for the years 1787-87, was legally possible
because John Marks, Sheriff of said county had moved to Georgia
some time during those years, and which therefore authorized
William Clark, one of his deputies to make such sale
(Wood'sHist. p. 56).

"In the list of first Grand Jury in Oglethorpe Co., GA, appears
the name of John Marks, this county was laid out 1793, eight
years after the Goosepond settlement, which was included in
Oglethorpe County."

"Capt. John Marks (Hastings, John) m. bet 1784/85, Mrs Lucy
(Meriwether) Lewis, and had the following children and
stepchildren; he died abt. 5 Mar 1800.

1 Meriwether Lewis, b. Locust Hill, near Charlottesville, VA, 17
Oct1774. The famous explored of the Rocky Mountains, and the
Pacific Coast.Died unm., near Nashville, TN, while acting as
Governor of Missouri Territory, 17 Oct 1809.

p. 8; "Capt. John Marks served under Baron Steuben, in the
Revolutionary war, and his discharge papers are now in the
possession of members of the family, he was with 10th VA regr.
1779-1785. He received a grant of land in Ross Co., Ohio. For
his services in War, see DAR Lin. Books.

Early Records of Georgia, Vol I and II, Wilkes Co. Vol I, p. 48
Will of John Marks, Folio 250 W/B "DD"
To wife, Lucy, the use of whole estate real and personal for
life or widowhood to be under the direction of my executors.

To my two"neffues" Haistens and Peter Marks, sons of my bro.
Peter Marks, 1000 acres on the western waters of VA being a part
of 4000 acres "due me for my services in the Continental Arme"
if it is precured.

To son John Haistens Marks the land whereon I live to be sold if
thought best to purchase land elsewhere. At the death or
marriage of my wife Lucy all residue to be divided between my
children, John Haistens Marks and Polly Garland Marks at
majority or marriage. Friends John Gilmer and Nicholas Johnson.
Excrs. Signed Mar. 29, 1791. Probated 30 Oct 1791. Henry Tyler,
Thos. Meriwether, Wm. Johnson, Frans. Meriwether, Test."

Notes

Abraham Salle (Sallee) b 25 Feb 1674, St. Martin, Ile de Re, son
of Jean Salle (from Courteil, Paroisse de Mougon, Poitou) by his
wife Marie (Martin); m. 1699 at London, Olive Perrault; to New
York City; then to Manakin, Virginia.

COURT, AUGUST 20TH, 1706. A Statement that on Feb. 1st, 1702
[1703], Mr. Abraham Salle gave bond as executor of Mr. Soloman
Delalua, with Mr. Chas. De Sally and Mr. David Minitrees as
security; and that De Sally had since gone to Eng., and
Minetrees removed himself to a remote part of the colony.

Sept. 2d, 1707.
The answer of Abraham Salle to the Petition of Mr. Philipe,
humbly Sheweth, That whereas, the s'd Philipe Complained that I
affronted him on the 30th day of March last, while he was in the
Pulpit, by calling him seditious, and the cheif of ye seditious,
I beg leave to represent to your honnors the whole fact as it
happen' d, which I flatter myself will be a compleat
justification. When Mr. Philipe had finish'd the service of the
day, he continued in the Pulpit as his custome is where there is
any Parish business to be done, the first thing he did, was to
demand the Register of Christenings to be delivered up to him
out of ye Clerk of the Vestry' hands, and in case he refused to
do it, he would excommunicate him; he was pleas' d to say this
with a rage very unbecoming the place, which made me intreat him
to have a little patience till the dispute should be ended,
whether the Register should be in the Vestry's Custody or his; I
assur'd him that the Vestry had no intention either to encroach
upon his Rights or to give up their own, and therefor desir'd to
inform themselves more fully of that matter; upon this, he flew
out into a gretter pasion than before, and frankly told us that
he acknowledg'd no Vestry there was, neither would he have the
people acknowledge any. Immediately after his nameing the
People, sevarol of his party, and particularly Lacaze and
Michel, stood up, and in the Church took the liberty to utter
many injurious things against me and the last prest thro' the
whole congregation to get up to the place where I was, and then
catching me by the coat, he threatened me very hardly, and by
his Example, several of the crowd were heard to say, we must
assassinate that damn'd fellow with the black beard, and that
Bougre de Chien ought to be hanged up out of the way, and
several other violent Expressions, not very proper for the
Church. The s'd Philipe in the mean time, was so far from
endeavouring to appease their tumult, that 'twas observed he did
his best to inflame it, and was ____ lowder and more outragious
than anybody. I thought it now my duty as a Justice, to command
the peace, putting the people in mind of the day and occasion,
and the place where they were, but all to little purpose; the
Queen's name had no effect upon them. When I found matters in
that dangerous condition, I thought it prudent to withdraw, and
when I came to the Church door, I told Mr. Philipe 'twas visible
that he had fomented that sedition, and therefore he was a
seditious person, and even the Chief of the Seditious. This is
the naked fact as it happened, which I am ready to prove to your
honours by sufficient testimony, which, if I do, I have the
confidence to hope I need no further Justification.

And then, as far as his petitioning for an Order for Chooseing a
new Vestry at Monocantown, I humbly beg leave to represent to
your honours the unreasonableness of that Petition.

Not long after the erecting Monocantown into a Parish, the
Parishioners were assembled to elect a Vestry, and the Plurality
of voices fell upon the following persons:

Jacob Amonner, Jean Guerin Pierre Chastain, Abra. Soblet Jacque
Lacaze Jean Farcy, Jacques Brotisse Abra. Remy Jean Foniuelle,
Louis Outartre, Andre Aubry Abra. Salle.
Vestry of Monacanlown Parish
In that election the Law of this Country was punctually
observ'd; the persons were 12 in number, and were chosen by the
Major part of the Parish, called together by Mr. Philipe for
that purpose; they were not chosen for one year, according to
the electing Elders in france, w'ch Mr. Philipe would insinuate,
but were chosen as a lawful Vestry, and for several years have
been own'd as such, even by Mr. Philipe himself, and he has
always apply'd himself to them for his Salary; they have been
called Antiens because the French have no other word in their
language for a Vestryman, and it has never been questioned by
any one whether this were a legal Vestry or not, till lately
that the Sr. Philipe, upon a quarrel he's had with some
particular member of it, would get this Vestry quashed, to
introduce his onne Creature that will be ready to Sacrifice . .
. of the parish to his extravagance and arbitrary humour, if....

AT A COUNCIL HELD AT THE CAPITOL THE 18TH DAY OF NOVEM'R, 1710:
Present the Hon' ble Lieut.-Governour in Councill. On Reading at
this Board a Petition of Abraham Sallee and Claude Phillipe de
Richbourgh, in behalf of themselves and other French Refugees,
Inhabitants of the Mannakin Town, setting forth: "That at their
first arrival there was granted for the Settlement of the said
Refugees a Tract of Ten Thousand acres of Land, to be laid out
according to the rate of a hundred and thirty-three acres to
each Family. That the said Refugees did settle upon some part of
the said Land, and had about five Thousand Acres then laid out
and divided among them; but the said division having Regard to
the particular Settlement, so as to give to every man the
proportion.... adjoining to his House, and therefore proposing
that a more equal distribution of the said land may be made, and
that those who have not their full proportion in the first Five
Thousand Acres may have the same made up out of the last Five
Thousand Acres, laid out and appropriated for the aforesaid
Settlement.

This Board, taking the said Petition-with the proposals therein
contain' d-into consideration, have thought fitt to Order that
the Land above mention'd be laid out' and distributed in manner
following (vizt): That all such heads of Families, and their
Representatives as have been constantly resident at the said
Manakin Town from the first Settlement, shall, in the first
place, draw Lotts, and, according to the priority of their
Lotts, shall have liberty to choose ; And shall Accordingly have
as much Land laid out for them respectively in the last five
Thousand Acres as will, with the land they have already, make up
their full complement of 133 Acres to each Family. That all
persons that have come in since the first Settlement, and have
been constantly Resident at the Mannakin Town since their first
Coming, shall, in the next place, draw Lotts, and, according to
the Priority of their said Lotts, shall have their proportion of
Land in the last 5,000 Acres to compleat with what they have
already, the quantity of 133 Acres to each Family. And, in the
last place, such as have deserted the said Settlement, and
afterwards returned to Inhabit there, shall, in like manner,
draw Lotts, and be preferr'd to the choice of Land in the last
5,000 Acres, to make up their Complement of 133 Acres for each
respective Family, according to the priority of their Lotts. And
it is Ordered, that the Surveyor of the county of Henrico do lay
out the said respective proportions of Land at the charges of
the Person desiring the same. In which he is hereby directed and
required to take care that the breadth of the several Shares of
Land bear a due proportion to the length. and that no small
slips of Land be left between the Lotts that may not be useftill
or fitt to be taken up by any Other Person.

And in case it shall be found that any Person hath, in the first
five Thousand Acres of Land, more than the said proportion of
133 Acres, and his next Neighbour hath not enough, that such
Neighbour shall have the Overplus Added to his Lott to make his
said lott the Number of 133 Acres, and if any Improvements be
made upon the same, the Owner of that Lott, to which it is
added, shall pay to the other the value the said Improvements
shall be appraised at.

And it is further Ordered, that such of the French Refugees as
have bought the Plantations, or dividents of any other of the
said Nation in the first 5,000 Acres, shall have and enjoy the
same without prejudice to such Purchaser, to hold the Land due
to him for his own share, and to take up as much more as will
make his said Share the Compleat quantity of 133 Acres.

Provided, That no Person who hath sold his proportion of the
first 5,000 Acres shall be Intitled to take up any more of the
second 5,000 Acres than he should have had in case such Sale had
never been made. And if any Person hath already Settled upon the
last 5,000 Acres of Land, and hath made Improvements thereon,
such Person shall have his whole quantity of 133 Acres laid out
in the last 5,000, provided there be sufficient over and above
the Proportion due to the other Inhabitants, and there be not,
then the Houses and clear'd grounds of such Persons shall be
reserved to him as part of his Proportion to the said Tract of
Land.

And whereas, divers of the first heads of Families settled at
the Mannakin Town are since dead, it is Ordered that the Heir or
Children of the Deceas'd (if any be), and if not the Widdow,
shall have and Enjoy the divident Allotted or which ought to be
Allotted . . . . head of Family be dead without Heir or other
Representatives, his Share or Proportion of the said Lands shall
be confirmed to such person or persons (being of the same
Nation) as are now in possession thereof. And to the end the
Surveyor of Henrico county may be the better Enabled to Sett out
and Assign to each particular person his share of the said land,
it is Order'd that Mr. Robert Bolling, who Surveyed the first
5,000 Acres, do grant Certificates of the Bounds and quantities
of the several lotts unto the Persons for whom he setts out the
same, and to such as claim under them, without demanding any fee
or reward, he having been already paid for the same out of his
Majestie's Revenues. And if it shall happen that any person
shall be contented with less than 133 Acres, so that there shall
remain any quantity of land not taken up after the several
Allottments above mention'd, it is hereby declar'd that such
Overplus land shall be granted to any other French Refugees as
shall hereafter come to settle at the Mannakin Town, for the
Encouragement of the said settlement. And the Surveyor of the
said County of Henrico is hereby ordered and required to lay out
the lands aforesaid, having due regard to Rules and directions
herein before sett down, and in any case any dispute or
controversie shall arise among the said Refugees in the
distribution of their several shares of Land, The Hon' ble the
Lieut. Governour, with the advice of the Councill, doth hereby
Authorize and Impower Cob. Wm. Randolph and Mr. Richard Cocke,
of Henrico county, to hear and determine the said disputes, And
in case they find any difficulties, that they Report the same
specially to the Lieut. Governour for his final determination
therein.